The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

this springs goods.
In Des MONIES they charge you one dollar
per quart for green peas.
AMERICAN capitalists are investing heavi-
ly in real estate in Mexico.
BUFFALO gnats have killed s24O0 Jer-
sey bull in Memphis, Tenn.
ENGLISH people are surprised to find out
that Buffalo Bill is not an Indian.
THE season of colossal fish yarns may
now be said to have been fully inaugural
ed.
Mr.. DRINKwATER was candidate for
memDer of the Denver (Col.) city council,
recently.
Iowa and Kansas people now put their
corn into hogs and hominy, instead of the
distillery.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is hopeful of contin-
ued peace; still he keeps his weather eye
on the Car.
THE world probably holds no more rest
less or uncomfortable man than the Car
of all the Russias.
KrsG MwANGA, of Africa, is opposed to
single blessedness. He is eighteen years
old and has 1000 wives.
THE production Of pig iron in this coun-
try is now about $4,000 tons a week or
greater than ever before.
The natural gas excitement in indiana is
on the increase. 1t is more than an ex-
citcment-it is an uproar.
THE Journal Of Education says: "NeveY
allow child to use short pencil, lead or
slate. 1t spoils the handwriting"
THE red flag of the auctioneer has be.
come unpopular in Chicago since it's prom
inent display as the insignia of anarchy.
1.-THE low-necked dress must CO." says
an exchange. Which way, please? 1t
can't well go lower, that is, conveniently.
In Austria the full title of the Official
forest inspector is kaiserlich- -koniglich.
Staatseisenbahn holzversorgungsnspe
tor.
The suppression of free passes will aug
ment the national stock of leg muscle. 1t
is an i'll overflow that deposits no allu-
vium.
PASSENGER trains, with bath rooms,
barber shops, restaurants, and saloons
are to be put on the route between Chicago
and New York.
THE m essage of the Governor of Mime
sofa is printed in ten languages, repre-
senting the linguistic capacity OF that in
teresting State.
ScoTT BAR, Cal, has the tallest post
master in the United States. He stands
over seven feet in his stockings and
weighs $50 pounds.
POCKETS in dresses are again fashion
able. The pickpocket is not helped any by
this. What man could ever find pocket
in woman's dresss
In boring an artesian we'll at Eureka,
Cal, they found charred wood at $50 feet,
and pieces of shell and parts Of the skele-
ton of a bird at $50 feet.
AN English surgeon says that people who
use rocking chairs the most get deaf the
soonest. Rocking also hurts the eyes and
makes people near-sighted.
THE Foster homestead at Pittsburgh,
where the late Stephen C. Foster wrote
his "Old Folks at Home," is to be torn
down by its new owner, Mr.. Henry Ham
mer.
AN unexpected champion for the corset
has arisen in fashionable doctor, who
declares that the corset is public benefit
1t causes all the fools among women to
die young.
PHILADELPHIA has forty-one National
banks and New York forty The bank
deposits in the City of Brotherly Love
amount to SIS, 1861, ,367, and in Gotham to
$237, liz, ,20S.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says the silence
of the st. Louis press upon the subject of
baseball beats a Quaker meeting. One
can hear st. Louisan breathe across the
length of the bridge.
MINNIE BOND, colored buried at Falls
Church, Va, few days ago, had docu-
ments to prove that she was one hundred
and twenty-eight years old. She remem-
bered General Washington.
BRIC-A-BRAC is contraction of the
French de bric ct de 6roc, "by hook or by
crook" ION this side and that" 1t is ap.
Piled to miscellaneous collections of odd
and rare articles of real value.
THERE lives in New Hampshire, or did q
Few months ago, a man who once present
ed bill to the administrator of his
fathers estate for the time lost in attend
ing the old gentleman's funeral.
The gross public debt of Canada on
March 81 was $27O, ,34O, 146; net debt, $685.
e65,S3l revenue from sale of Dominion
lands last year, homestead and pre-emp.
tion sales, $5O9, ,341; leases, S136,61s.
The next convention of crowned heads
and princes and princesses of the blood
will be at London at the Queens Jubilee
celebration. Victoria is preparing to en-
tain them in royal style at public expense
A TEXAS steer picked up Miss Louise
Danforth, of St. Louis, on his horns
tossed her over fence into yard, ant
she stood there and cried because one O
the ribs Of her parasol was broken in tn,
toss.
DIR. MERRIMANN, Of the Department o
Agriculture, insists that something mus
be done at once to destroy the Englisl
sparrow or else the curse will grow L
such q magnitude that il will be necessar,
to draw on the public treasury to destro,
It,
CHARLES II. RUGGLEs, a millionaire lum
herman of Manistee, Mich, is SO strong
believer in the maxim that "cleanliness i
next to godliness," that he is devoting
part of mis- wealth to establishing publ
baths in some of the larger cities of tn
Northwest.
Or three sisters in New York, one has
Jew for husband, another Protestant
and the third a Roman Catholic. The,
met by appointment, says the Times at TIN
residence Of the latter on Easter Sunda,
night. The Jewess, presiding at the piano
sang the touching Methodist hymn, "Shal
we know each other therer
We are told that most of the Baltimor
water is now swarming with red an,
white bugs, which are, however, harmless
10 drink. "Bug juice" has been imme
MORALLY the slang for different sort
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